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Messy desktop

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Too many emails

My gmail inbox has 12,000 emails. I receive ~30 emails (after removing junk mails) each day. Though I have set to display 100 emails per page but some important but unreplied emails soon disappear from the first page. I often “star” impor
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Interview Liz Walter and Signe Bray

Liz and Signe each published a review paper recently. They share their tips and experience … Signe Bray Frontiers in human neuroscience Elizabeth Walter Neuroscience
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Increasing number of coauthors in PubMed

According statistics published in PubMed, the average number of coauthors per paper was 1.56 in 1950, meaning at least half of papers were single authored at that time. This number now reaches to 4.77 in 2008. The age of publishing a paper alone is g
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xjView Tutorial Videos

FDR function, English version FDR function, Chinese version 普通话 Mandarin FDR function, Chinese versi
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Productivity Programs in my computer

My desktop computer in the lab is a Mac Pro. I also installed Windows XP on this computer through VMWare. Windows XP (and 7, now windows 10 64bit) major working environment, including manuscript writing, data analysis, preparing presentation etc MS W
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Dell desktop computer problem

My dell computer (E510) doesn’t make my life easy: If I turn it off, I can’t turn it on easily. The yellow light is blinking but it just doesn’t turn on. After I turned it on with some complicated tricks months ago, I have always ke
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文良安: 心灵的高度

心灵的高度是心灵达到一种超脱世俗,不为世俗所牵制的高超的思想境界。自来到西藏后,我逐渐对心灵的高度有了最新的感悟:心灵是一个人的根,人们的观念在心灵深处徘徊而升华;心灵是一个人的灵魂,人们的举动因为心
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Weekly cycle of alivelearn.net traffic

Number of people visiting this blog fluctuates periodically with period 1 week. Basically on weekends few people visit.
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